Principal DevOps Engineer

Optibrium develops cutting-edge drug discovery software and AI solutions to complement the way chemists work. Our mission is to create a comprehensive platform, underpinned by novel technologies that supports intuitive and collaborative drug discovery without the steep learning curve.

We make molecular design, optimisation, and analysis faster, more efficient and more productive, by making computational techniques truly accessible and intuitive to medicinal chemists. It frees chemists to work more instinctively and confidently, while driving collaboration between disciplines, and helping ideas get developed, captured and shared faster.

We are excited to be recruiting for a Principal DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team, reporting to the Lead Platform Engineer.

About the Role

As a Principal DevOps Engineerat Optibrium, you will maintain and continuously enhance our existing AWS cloud-based infrastructure and the products and services it supports, ensuring they operate efficiently, securely, and effectively.

Main Reponsibilities:

• Maintain and extend our existing AWS cloud based infrastructure and the products and services it supports efficiently and effectively
• Minimise any downtime and ensure cloud based data-recovery protocols are up-to-date and working effectively.
• Ensure all cloud infrastructure, products and services are fully patched/updated to provide the best defence against critical data loss/exfiltration (cyber-attacks, disaster events etc)
• Ensure our cloud based disaster recovery plan is fully up-to-date and regularly reviewed
• Coordinate with the security working group to ensure that policies and procedures relating to the cloud infrastructure (e.g. our disaster recovery plan) remain up-to-date and regularly reviewed and are aligned/maintained to IS27001 standards.
• Mentor and develop members of the team
• Work with the wider organisation to instill devops best practises amongst the wider organisation

About you

You will bring:

• A deep understanding of docker build and ECR distribution strategies
• Advanced experience developing Kubernetes applications with deployment via Helm charts
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Experience developing in Python
• Working knowledge of authentication and authorisation systems such as SSO, oAuth etc
• Understanding of AWS resources, including: EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, SSO, VPC etc.
• Development of pipelines as code using Jenkins and Github Actions
• Previous experience with automated integration testing in CI/CD pipelines using Behave, Flask 8, and Coverage
• Advanced AWS monitoring, maintenance and debugging skills
• Ability to prioritise, coordinate and delegaten in accordance with business priorities whilst progressing the DevOps Roadmap
• Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives through to completion

What We Offer

We offer hybrid & flexible working, a competitive base salary, pension contribution, employee private medical and dental cover, life assurance, corporate gym discount and cycle to work scheme.

If you’re interested in joining a growing, entrepreneurial team working in an exciting field, please apply with a CV and covering letter to vacancies@optibrium.com (unsolicited applications from agencies will not be accepted).